stevens and three other americans died in that attack. u.s. officials now believe stevens' death was planned and not the result of actions by a spontaneous mob demonstrating against an online video that ridicules islam's profit muhammad. mike rogers tells cbs -- prophet muhammad. mike rogers tells cbs news it's mightily likely the attack was -- mighty likely the attack was fueled by elements of al-qaeda. >> reporter: a trashed building is all that remains after the attack that killed four americans including ambassador chris stevens. >> the world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts. >> reporter: tuesday night a mob armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades stormed the building. it's being investigated whether groups with ties to al-qaeda planned the attack. >> make no mistake. we will work with the libyan government to bring to justice the killers who tachyed our

people. >> reporter: -- who attacked our people. >> reporter: secretary of state hillary clinton said ambassador stevens risked his life to help build a letter bib ya and that libyans helped -- libya and that libyans helped get his body to the hospital. there was a protest against an obscure american made film against islam. the embassy released a statement condemning the movie drawing criticism from republican presidential candidate mitt romney. >> having that embassy reiterate a statement effect give apologizing for the right of free speech is not the right course for an administration. >> reporter: steve croft of 60 minutes asked for the president's reaction to romney's comments. >> governor romney seems to have a attendance to shoot first -- a tendency to shoot first and aim later. as president one of the things i've learned is you can't do that. >> reporter: all non-u.s. government personnel have been asked to leave libya. danielle nottingham, cbs news. >> about 50 marines are headed

to libya now to help protect other american diplomatic buildings there. in a little bit i'll speak live with a former ambassador tom macdonald, knew the late christopher stevens and will explain what's really involved in being a foreign ambassador. here at home an unlicensed daycare center shut down after investigators found more that not 20 babies and toddlers strapped into car seats. police in dale city say the car seats were left in bathrooms and in one case a closet with the door shut. two sisters were the only adults watching 21 children in all. >> that would surprise anybody really. i mean you don't want to hear about stuff like that happening, especially next-door to you. >> luckily in this case we were able to get there and it wasn't a situation where one was injured or kill order something like that. >> 21-year-old anila qayyum and 23-year-old rabia qayyum were arrested and face a slew of charges. a man accused of taking

cell phone videos up women's skirts is behind bars. he is tapha nyang. 26-year-old from silver spring would ask for directions and use a cell phone aimed through the hole of a duffel bag to record video up their skirts. police staked out takoma park metro platform eventually arresting nyang based on witness descriptions. they do think there may be more victims. call police if you think you were approached by that man. a beefed up police presence in place in a capitol heights, maryland neighborhood. officers are trying to protect kids walking to and from central high school. this is after the murder of student markel ross. he was gunned down while walking to school yesterday morning. the young man's mother tellsous scott broom her heartwrenching story. tells our scott broom her heartwrenching story. >> reporter: elizabeth ross telling me her son markel walked nearly 2 miles to school every day simply because he wanted to be on type. while so many other kids here

find way -- on time. while so many other kids here find ways to catch rides to school including markel's own two younger brothers elizabeth said sometimes those rides meant markel was late. so he preferred to walk every day in dawn's early light. tuesday morning 10 minutes before 7:00 on old central avenue in capitol heights someone shot and killed him and police don't know why. >> yes, i'm afraid for others. >> reporter: ross said if it was a robbery, the gunman got nothing. >> ipod, phone, watch, tennis shoes, everything was still on his body. >> he had a real nice smile that would brighten everybody's day. >> reporter: fellow students say markel was popular with no known grudges or beefs that would lead to this. police have no motive, which is why today there was fear among some parents who chose to drive kids to school today. >> i think for at least the rest of the week it should be more police presence. >> reporter: and there was. police moving in both directions up and down old central avenue as students

walked. have you noticed them before this where they've been out here when you normally walked to school? >> no. >> reporter: there's enough understandable fear here that markel's mother is now talking about transferring his two younger brothers into another school district simply because there are so many unanswered questions about this murder. in capitol heights, maryland, scott broom, 9 news now. tonight we now know the widower of a culpeper woman shot to death by a police officer in that town died of natural causes. gary cook was found inside his apartment yesterday. virginia state police say could he have been dead for several days. cook told 9news in an interview earlier this year that he himself was battling several health issues even as he was trying to figure out what happened to his wife. the officer who killed patricia cook is former officer daniel harmon-wright with the culpepper department. he goes on trial for that death early next year. another banner september day out there, topper shutt joining us from the weather terrace. i really want on get out there

with you. can you dial up another one for tomorrow? >> i think we can. dialing up two more may be a challenge. 81 was the high today about dead on our average. look at temperatures now. it's still comfortable with temps in the 70s, 76 downtown, 73 gaithersburg, 77 in manassas and leesburg. that said, you go out late tonight, bring a wrap as my mother would say because it will drop very quickly after sunset. for tonight clear skies, cool, not quite as chilly as it's been. leave the ac off. you'll need a sweater late, low temperatures 52 to 62, winds light, south, southeast at 10. we'll come back and talk about a cold front that will change the within forecast a bit. we'll explain coming up. meantime a crazy scene in los angeles today as police chased town a couple bank robbery suspects -- down a couple bank robbery suspects. a man in the bank seat of an suv threw handfuls of bills out

the windows. so people running in the street ran to try to grab the cash. two men were arrested. detectives are out for two more. still ahead on 9news rabid animals on the attack in fairfax county. >> and right after the break a preview of the much anticipated iphone 5.

welcome back. we're getting our first look at apple's new iphone 5. >> it is the most beautiful product we have ever made. >> beautiful, huh? a company exec showed off the newest features in san francisco today. the new iphone has a larger 4- inch display, a taller slimmer design, longer battery life, a

faster processor, a 4glte and a new connector to attach the iphones to other brands of computers and chargers. there will be an adapter to plug into older accessories as well. the cost will be between 199 and $399. iphone 5 goes on sale september 21st. a live look outside right now, topper shutt along with your full forecast. let's hope for another gorgeous september day. >> right after the break more on the death of ambassador christopher stevens. we'll be speaking in studio with a former ambassador about the dangers of diplomacy. we'll be right back.

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earlier in tonight's broadcast we've been talking about ambassador christopher stevens killed at a u.s. consulate in libya, feelings that al-qaeda may be involved in that death. joining us now with more perspectives on the dangers to the job is former ambassador to zimbabwe tom macdonald. thank you for being here. during your years there did you feel imminent danger? >> not to me personally, but to my team i did serve during the period of embassy bombings in 1988 where the embassies were attacked in nairobi and taking care of my american people and employees was first and foremost and, in fact, after embassy bombings it's interesting there were a

handful of more senior employees who were perhaps on their retirement tour. i had to talk some of them back into the building. it was very traumatic for them and scary, but you take care of yourself, but i was really never in fear of my own safety. >> but what about our diplomats and their families? if they're in countries with strong anti-western and anti- american sentiment what's day to day life? >> oh, it's serious. libya is a very serious place with, you know, people have, a plethora of guns, rpgs, kalashnikov is, ak47s around. you can always find arms. christopher stevens, who i didn't know personally, what a hero, he served our country in the greatest tradition and i take off my hat too our military people, but i don't -- to our military people, but i don't think the public realizes diplomats and ambassadors are there representing our president and country anthey

are targets. >> on that note we may have a rather rose colored view of what diplomats and ambassadors really have to, do lots of teas and things like that. what really is involved in the day to day life when someone does serve our country life this overseas? >> my days were typically 12 to 18 hours. i was in zimbabwe in the second clinton term when zimbabwe was in a free fall when people were being tortured and raped and so forth on farms. i had a fully armored large bmw that took me around. i had diplomatic security agents, but you also separate yourself from the people. we wore through tires. i went around on the roads so much there, was everywhere. so you -- on the one hand you have to be careful and cautious. on the other hand, you cannot isolate yourself at all because that's the purpose. we need to represent america.

we have a great steer to tell and appear bass -- story to tell and ambassadors and their staff need to be out in public doing that. >> they're the ones convincing the rest of the world in many cases. >> absolutely. christopher stevens serving america in the greatest tradition. i think two employees were not identified. there was an information officer, what we call an amo as i would say, the cable people who worked upstairs from me who would get the communication out every day. so that individual is a hero, too and i'm sure there are many fine libyan local employees and i would agree with president obama. we should not stereotype the libyans as a result of this. we should not let this separate ourselves, but that is very difficult terrain there and i'm glad we're sending marines in. >> thank you for your perspective and help being us salute these heroes. >> thank you. meantime back at home the story of more rabid animals terrorizing neighborhoods in

fairfax county. police say there have been two more reports in the lake barcroft area where a rabid rabid coon was chasing -- rabid raccoon was chasing animals and pets. >> reporter: we're at hidden pond nature center where police say a rabid beaver jumped out of the waters here onto one of these dogs. they say that beaver was acting aggressively and chasing after children. then just 10 miles down the road another rabid animal, this time a rabid raccoon, was going after neighbors there. carey doyle's father was walking their dog, a sweet 9- year-old beagle bassett hound mix, sunday afternoon when out of nowhere a rabid raccoon came up to them. >> he was pretty freaked out by it. you don't expect to have a rabid raccoon in a neighborhood like this. >> reporter: she says it was acting strangely and even approaching other neighbors near their homes. >> it followed them to our house into our driveway. >> reporter: it is the second

incident of a rabid animal in this lake barcroft neighborhood. just last week an 80 glide woman was attacked by a rabid we've while she was swimming in the lake. all the reported aggressive animals including this rabid beaver from last week were tracked down and killed by animal control officers. they also all tested positive for rabies. >> it's too soon to make that kind of assessment or that kind of statement, that something is going on, but certainly when these types of things happen, we do take a look and make note of them. >> reporter: at hidden pond nature center in springfield kids were finishing a fishing competition when they saw a rabid beaver come up and start chasing them. with now three rabid animal reports in just the last week neighbors are now a little more on edge. >> we have tons of animals in this neighborhood and people walking their dogs and lots of children. so it's kind of unsafe. >> reporter: what's so unusual is the fact we have two cases of rabid beavers and police say what they think could be going

on is that those beavers are being bitten by rabid raccoons. in springfield anny hong, 9 news now. >> police say there were no injuries from last weekend's incident. animal control will canvas affected neighborhoods with flyers about rabies safety, which is no joke if you are bitten. it's so serious and the free. is not pleasant. >> but not as bad as -- treatment is not pleasant. >> but not as bad as it used to be i'm told. >> that's true. >> we're looking at a perfect day and perfect evening, a little different story friday. let's start with a live look outside, our live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. after a high of 81 it's down to 76, dew point held steady in the low 50s. that just means the air is dry, good hair day. you can do exercise and not perspire that much, just about perfect. pressure a little bit, 30.32 inches of mercury. currently mainly 70s, 74 arlington, 73 fairfax, even 69 in reston, a little suspect, but we'll give it to you, 73

vienna, 75 in great falls, 76 college park and look at that, 69 in bowie. we said this all week and we'll say it again. you have a dry air mass which we do. it heats up quickly and cools off quickly which is pretty nice. a nice stretch continues, cool again tonight, not quite as chilly, a terrific thursday. humidity stays low and remember your shades thursday because we're looking at pretty much pure sun once again. so for tonight clear and cool, leave the ac off. you'll need a sweater if pure out late after 10:00 -- you're out late after 10:00, low temperatures 52 to 62, winds south, southeast at 10. by morning sunny, cool start, a sweater, 50s and 60s, probably no 40s tomorrow morning, although the burbs checked in with 40s two mornings in a row, winds light, southeasterly at 5 to 10. by afternoon mostly sunny and gorgeous again, not humid, high temperatures low 80s, winds out of the southeast at 10, pretty much a perfect day.

in fact, a perfect day from the mountains to the coast, 74 in polkland, 80 in cumberland, mostly sunny, around 80 in hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester. culpeper a little warmer, low 80s, 80 in warrenton, manassas and leesburg, probably 81 or so in fairfax. downtown 81, low 80s into southern maryland, low 80s to around 80 up into north on 270 through frederick and even by the water temperature around 80 in annapolis and the winds have been negligible, so there's no small craft advisory for the bay or tidal potomac. 52 to 62 to start, great by noon, mid- to upper 70s, great by evening, 79 to 83. hard to diagram a better day, quite frankly. next three days code green, spectacular tomorrow, 81, nice friday, 82, yes, a shower late friday fire, a few clouds friday afternoon. so not as picture perfect but

nice. next seven days we've kept sunday dry, upper 70s. so that frontal boundary will go through friday night instead of saturday night which is good. monday some showers and thunderstorms again and then tuesday maybe leftover shower or back in the low 80s and then cool on wednesday, but brisk and nice, low 70s. >> love it, love it. we're back after the break with some big news of events happening in our area and topper and i promise not to sing. we'll be right back. >> really.

looking ahead to tomorrow, mitt romney will hold a rally ativan dike park in fairfax. doors open -- at van dyke park in fairfax. doors open at 9 a.m. the program starts at 11:35.

at university of mary washington at 5 p.m. michelle obama speaks and also tomorrow a national service for neil armstrong. former astronauts and other notable dignitaries will be there at 10 a.m. at washington national cathedral. that is our report tonight at 7:00. i'll be back at 11:00 tonight with derek. don't forget you can find us any time at www.wusa9.com. i'm anita brikman. see you later.

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